Precision and accuracy of peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) in the mouse skeleton compared with histology and microcomputed tomography (μCT)

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1486-1496

  Schmidt, Corina ^a   Priemel, Matthias ^b   Kohler, Thomas ^c   Weusten, Axel ^a   Müller, Ralph ^c   Amling, Michael ^b   Eckstein, Felix ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b University of Medical School Hamburg Eppendorf   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Anatomische Anstalt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bone; Histomorphometry; Mouse; Peripheral quantitative computed tomography; Transgenic model

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL BONE; DIAPHYSIS; FEMUR; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LUMBAR SPINE; MEASUREMENT; METAPHYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETON; TIBIA; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; BONE DENSITY; FEMUR; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1842716689     PISSN: 08840431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.2003.18.8.1486     Document Type: Article

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